Imminent investments and releases turned out to take years to complete. Late nights in bars and hushed hallway whispers mentioned huge amounts of sensors being bought and work in file fixing software. Reality is often a bit more like trickling molasses than dreamt lightning advances, however.
But, as the PrimeSense acquisition was much talked about in 2013, the LinX acquisition fueled a lot of speculation in 2015, the TrueDepth camera was going to change everything in 2017, and ARKit has always been exciting for us since things like object recognition and image reconstruction would also benefit 3D printing. Apple’s acquisition of several 3D scanning companies and Google’s Project Tango fueled endless discussions. For years people have been speculating when or if 3D scanning will come to mobile phones.
